Pocket match carrier



Aug. 14, 1923.

C F SNYDER POCKET MATCH CARRIER Filed June a. 1921 Patented Aug. 14, 1923.

"IITED STATES POCKET MATCH CARRIER.

Application filed June 3, 1921. Serial No.474,653.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs F. SNYDER, a citizen of the United-States, residing at Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket Match Carriers, of which the following is a Specification.

This invention is for a match carrier which may be conveniently carried in the pocket and which is designed to have'match striking means. associatedtherewith.

Safety matches are commonly sold in small wooden boxes having the sides thereof coated with a special c'ompositionthat forms 'a striking surface. Such boxes cannot be readily carried in the pocket without discomfort and wvithout becoming broken. lVhile metal cases have been'designed to receive such boxes, these cases only increase the size of the package and are liable to wear the pocket. l

The present invention has for its object 'to provide a flexible match carrier capable of holding the contents of the usual safety match box, and having means for receiving those sides of the box which are provided with a striking surface.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is afront view of the match carrier with the cover'opened out;

Fig. 2 is a-similar view with the cover closed;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the cover'open; and 7 Fig. 4 is a section on line IV-IV of Fig. 2.

The carrier is formed from chamois skin, cloth, leather, or any other suitable flexible material. It may be made in any desired way, but as shown, is formed from a single piece of material A, which piece of material is in the form of a strip of the desired width.

The strip A is folded at 5 and the portion 6 laps over the portion 7. The side edges are stitched to form a pocket 8 having an open upper end and a closed lower end.

\ The excess length of the strip, indicated by 9, forms a cover which may fold at 10.

A buttonhole 11 maybe provided in the cover 9 and a button 12 may be secured to the outside of the pocket near the bottom or unfasten it. 7

thereof. This provides a neat and attractive means for holding the cover closed, but

obviously a snap fastener or other suitable means inay be substituted for the button and button'hole. The lower end portion 9 of the cover 9 is adapted to project below the bottom' of the pocket to provide means for. more readily grasping the cover to fasten At suitable places in the part 6 are slots 13. These are adapted to receive the striking members 14 of the ordinary match box, the ends of the striking surfaces extending through the slots 13 and under the body of the Chamois skin or other flexible'material, while the middie portion is exposed.

In using the carrier, the user purchases a box of matches,-such as the so-called safety matches, which are commonly sold in penny boxes. The matches are placed in the pocket 8 and the box is broken to obtain'the sides which are coated to provide striking surfaces. These are inserted in the manner hereinbefore described through slots 18.

WVhen the cover is closed, the matches are prevented from losing out and the striking surface 14 are covered and protected. Being flexible, the container may be carried in the pocket with more comfort than the usual wood-splint or pasteboard box, and the material of which it is made does not wear the inside of the pocket, as does a metal case.

As two sides of the usual match box are provided with coated striking surfaces, they can both be held in place in the slots 13, one beneath the other, and as the top one becomes worn, it may be discarded and the second one used.

What I claim is:

As an article of manufacture, a match carrier formed of flexible material having a pocket therein, which pocket has an open and a closed end, a cover adapted to fold over one side of the pocket and close the open end thereof, cooperating fastening means on the cover and the said side, the side of the pocket over which said cover extends having slots therein for the reception of strips of material on which matches may be struck, and a match striking strip removably secured in the slots.

' In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

CHARLES F. SNYDER. 

